Chicago Welcomes Catholic Prelates at Eucharistic Congress
Chicago hosted the twenty eighth International Eucharistic Congress with a Coliseum demonstration for 12 000 attendees. Cardinal Bonzano received cheers while officials including Mayor Dever Governor Small and Secretary Davis conveyed welcomes and messages from President Coolidge. The pope’s legate accepted the tribute and President Coolidge’s religious liberty remarks were cited. The 1928 congress was announced to be held in Sydney Australia.
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Chicago
John Cardinal Bonzano
Theng
Dever
Small
Commonwealth
Davis
Coolidge
Robert M. Sweltzer
Catholic Charities
Samuel Insull
Charless. Deneen
Cardinal Bonanza
Mundelein
Cardinal Bonzano
The
Sydney
Australia
Auto Breaks Records From New York to Frisco
A Studebaker car left New York at 2 07 a m and reached San Francisco at 12 27 p m three and a half days later. Ad Jenkins and Ray Peck Salt Lake City businessmen set new trans continental speed marks. They beat the fastest passenger train by 12 hours 5 minutes and shaved 16 hours 25 minutes from the prior auto record. The 3471 mile run averaged 40 15 miles an hour.
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San Francisco
Studebaker
New York
Ad Jenkins
Ray Peck
Salt Lake C
Paris Veterans Parade Protests Debt Settlement Plan
French war veterans led by blind and mutilated heroes will march 50,000 strong on the Champs Elysees to protest a debt agreement. The procession will display 2,500 veteran flags and carry Stars and Stripes to show the protest is not against America.
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Paris
Champs Elysees
Arch of Triumph
Veterans’ Executive Council
America
Australia Moves to Reconstitute Arbitration Court
The Australian House of Representatives passed a conciliation and arbitration bill reconstituting the Commonwealth Arbitration Court and granting judges wider powers. It appoints conciliation commissioners and allows government intervention when disputed hours or wages arise. The Laborites support the measure.
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Australia
Melbourne
Commonwealth House of Representatives
Commonwealth Arbitration Court
Farm Loan Rate Cut Announced By Board
The farm loan board lowers interest on red loans to cooperative marketing groups from 5 to 4 percent and reduces banks rediscount rate from 5 to 4 percent effective July 1, with intermediate credit banks affected.
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Washington
Farm Loan Board
Congress to adjourn likely June 30
Washington report says the Republican steering committee set June 30 as an unstable adjournment day. The session will extend four days beyond Saturday June 26, the original date.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Tacna Arica plebiscite collapse triggers regional crisis
Washington reports an acute US Chile dispute after the Tacna Arica plebiscite negotiations collapsed. Flames of resentment sweep Chile following General Lassiter's unilateral move ending the plebiscite. Fear of renewed attacks on Peruvians grows as Chilean spokesmen say they will reoccupy disputed Tracna and Arica territories.
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Washington
United States
Chile
Lassiter
State Department
Tracna
Arica
Britain and Russia Clash Over Union Aid Money
Moscow declares it cannot prohibit Russian trade unions from sending funds abroad to aid unions in another country. The note responds to Britain over transfers to support the Trades Union Congress strike. The Congress declined the funds, which the British Miners' Federation later accepted.
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Moscow
Great Britain
Russia
Trades Union Congress
British Miners’ Federation
Favorable Balance in Foreign Trade in May
The Commerce Department reported a favorable trade balance of 88 million dollars for May, the first calendar month with exports exceeding imports. Exports reached 856 million while imports totaled 818 million, reversing April's 10 million deficit.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Palermo Forgery Ring Busted Over forged US Passports
Twenty four people including a United States consulate clerk in Palermo were arrested for selling forged passports to Italians seeking to emigrate to the United States. The scheme charged about $15,000 and the clerk is accused of forging an American visa.
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America
Palermo
Italy
United States
Fewer British Women Sail for Canada Last Year
The London report notes a drop in emigration under the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. In the previous year 1,270 women and children left England for empire ports, down from 1924 figures.
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London
Canada
Society For the
England
Empire Ports
Soviet Decree Claims North Pole as Russian Territory
A Moscow decree declares all lands north of Siberia part of Rusela. The official order asserts Soviet Russia owns the Arctic region and moves to establish sovereignty over the North Pole.
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London
Russia
North Pole
Moscow
Siberia
Rusela
Statewide Nebraska notes on crops and events
Nebraska state items include a 75 percent crop damage from a wind and hall storm near Ravena, early alfalfa cuts near Alliance, and a 15.83 ton per acre beet yield record for 1925. Other notes cover a Natl Spanish War Veterans encampment at Scottsbluff, cornerstone laid at Chadron Normal, and sugar factory progress at Minatare.
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Ravena
Fairbury
Fairchild Clay Products Company
Endicott
Alliance
J. M. Hunter
House of Representatives
O'Neill
Edwin D. Crites
Chadron
Nebraska Masons
State Normal School
Wilber
Nebraska
Scottsbluff
C. D. Bolster
Grand Island
Ashland
Falls City
Otto Neilsen
Omaha Elks
Lutheran Normal ‘School
Seward
Neb
Missouri Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Louis
Lincoln
A. E. Anderson
Red Cloud
Loren Bunney
Ramey
Dan Swanson
Valentine
Horky’s Park
Crete
Long Pine
North Platte Valley
Board of Centres
State Game
the Fish Bureau
Missouri River
Peru
Blue River
Monroe
Nebraska youth chosen for Sesqui-Centennial award
Lincoln Edward Brown of Omaha and Edna Daniels of Hershey were selected Tuesday by Nebraska high school contestants to represent the state in the American Youth award at the Sesqui Centennial exposition in Philadelphia late June to early July. Twenty five students were named from their schools as award contenders, with twenty present. The program includes a trip to the exposition under a teacher chaperone, a Washington trip with historical tours, and Gold medals and certificates to be presented by President Coolidge in Washington.
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Lincoln
Edward Brown
Omaha
Edna Daniels
Hershey
Nebraska
Philadelphia
Washington
President Coolidge
Electric bolt strikes dairy worker and kills dairy cows
Jann ebrog Harry Lingford aged 80 narrowly escaped death when a lightning bolt passed through him as he turned on an electric milking machine. He suffered severe burns and possible loss of a left arm. The bolt killed two cows and knocked twenty others to the barn floor.
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Jannebrog
Harry Lingford
DeMolay Convention selects state master councilor in 1927 ballot
Norfolk Nebraska City won the 1927 DeMolay convention battle defeating Broken Bow 58 to 48 on the third ballot. George Fitzsimmons of Lincoln was unanimously chosen state master councilor. Other officers elected include E Russell Matson Omaha vice councilor Hollis Kelper Sidney senior councilor Clifford Lester Alliance junior councilor Morris Allen Nebraska City scribe and treasurer.
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Norfolk
Nebraska City
Broken Bow
George Fitzsimmons
Lincoln
E. Russell Matson
Omaha
Hollis Kelper
Sidney
Clifford Lester
Alliance
Seedmen Harvest Blue Grass Under Dry Conditions
Humboldt seedmen gather blue grass seed across the region. Fields mature and ripen early due to very dry weather. Operators run stripping machines and pay one to two dollars per acre for the seed they obtain.
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Humboldt
Flooding Niobrara River Devastates Farmland. Urgent Aid Sought
The Missouri river re risen flooding Niobrara causing heavy land loss across acres of farms. Residents appeal for federal help with little success. One farmer evacuated his home to Niobrara just before his land was washed away.
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Niobrara
Missouri River
Outlook For Sugar Beet Good Grand Island
Prospects for a large acreage of sugar beets in this territory are favorable says A. J. Denman manager of the American Beet Sugar plant in Grand Island. Recent rains since Monday are expected to boost growth despite some setback from recent drought conditions.
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Grand Island
A. J. Denman
American Beet Sugar Company
Oxford hosts annual convention of Republican Valley Editorial association
The Oxford gathering drew strong turnout from across the Fifth district for the Republican Valley Editorial association. Officers elected include H. B. McKibben as president J Frank Lantz as vice president and Lee A Richmond as secretary treasurer.
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Oxford
Republican Valley
Fifth Congressional District
H. B. McKibben
J. Frank Lantz
Lee A. Richmond
Omaha youths head to Camp Sheldon for ten day program
One hundred fifty Omaha boys and leaders left Monday for Camp Sheldon at Columbius operated by the YMCA. The group will spend ten days in a character building program under the direction of E. B. Mickelwright, camp director of the Omaha YMCA.
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Omaha
Camp Sheldon
Columbius
E. B. Mickelwright
Mail Recovered and Returned After Doniphan Rail Station Find
Postal Inspector Floyd Williams reports most mail from the Doniphan railway station has been recovered and returned to owners. Three pouches found near Hastings were delivered, with Ong's pouch containing first class mail noted as locked.
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Grand Island
Doniphan
Floyd Williams
Hastings
Ong
Farmer Severely Injured in Disc Accident Near Bridgeport
A farmer living southeast of here named A. R. Smith suffered severe cuts to a leg a broken hip and possible internal injuries when his team ran away and threw him in front of a disc. He lay unconscious in the field for about half an hour.
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Bridgeport
R. A. Smith
Here
Ble
Wheeler outlines league activities and congress members paid for speeches
Washington report shows Wayne B Wheeler naming eight congressmen who received expenses or honoraria for prohibition speeches. Upshaw led with about 50 eastern speeches. Barkley 20 to 30. others listed included Cooper, Jones, Lowrey, Willis, Fess, and Robinson. Wheeler cites 1925 league spending around 150 000 to 200 000 dollars.
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Washington
Reed
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
Congress
Prohibition
Upshaw
Dem
Barkley
Cooper
Rep
Ohio
Jones
Wash
Lowrey
Miss
Willis and
Fess
Robinson
Ind
League
League For Pay
Taft Leaves for Canadian Summer Home
Chief Justice Taft, recuperating from illness, departed for his summer residence in Canada. T. V. O Connor of Buffalo and Jefferson Myers of Portland were confirmed by the Senate as members of the Shipping Board. The Senate dismissed Magnus Johnsons petition to unseat Senator Schall. President Louis Borno of Haiti dined at the White House with President and Mrs. Coolidge.
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Taft
Canada
T. V. O'Connor
Buffalo, N. Y
Jefferson Myers
Portland, Ore
Senate
Shipping Board
Magnus Johnson
Farmer-Laborite
Schall
Minnesota
Louis Borno
Haiti
White House
Coolidge
Secretary Wilbur names Rear Admiral Buret to lead Bureau
Secretary Wilbur selected Rear Admiral John D. Buret to succeed him on July 1 as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair.
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Wilbur
John D. Buret
Bureau of Construction and Repair
United States Forecasts Trade Surplus Near 300 Million
The United States plans to wind up its fiscal year on June 20 with a favorable trade balance around 300 million dollars, adding half a billion to its near nine billion dollar foreign trade total.
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United States
Senate rejects bid to reconsider Pittman bill on silver purchase
The senate failed by one vote to reopen consideration of the Pittman bill directing the treasury to buy 14,500,000 ounces of silver at one dollar per ounce for coinage.
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Senate
Treasury
Kentucky Girl Victor in Big Spelling Bee
Miss Pauline Bell aged thirteen won the national spelling bee prize of 1000 dollars and two gold medals. Second prize went to Miss Betty Robinson of South Bend Indiana for 500 dollars and third to Miss Dorothy Casey of St Louis for 200 dollars.
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Washington
Pauline Bell
Betty Robinson
South Bend
Ind
Dorothy Casey
St. Louis
Embargo Proposal Aims to Block Mexican Cattle Spread
The American Department of Agriculture proposes a cattle embargo to prevent hoof and mouth disease from Mexico entering the United States. A note for a conference between Mexican and American authorities was delivered by the embassy.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United States
American Department of Agriculture
British Note Provokes Russian Anti British Demonstrations
In Moscow workers protested the British strike funds note with demonstrations echoing reactions to the Curzon note. Similar protests erupted in several other cities, spreading concern over the British action.
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Moscow
Etry
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